On Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:53:27 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> As best I can tell by looking at my own figures, the "Work done for
> this project" figure shown in your screenshot corresponds to the total
> amount of credit awarded to your user account. The terms "work done"
> and "credit" seem to be interchangeable. There are two sources of
> delay in this figure:
Yes. That seems to be what I have understood. I just assumed that 'Credits'
meant Tasks completed!
> 1. Credit is only awarded after an individual work unit/task has been
> completed, not during the processing.
>
> 2. The actual statistics display is infrequently updated. The client
> is not in constant contact with the server. It seems the statistics
> are only updated when the client completes work and requests more
> work to download, but it seems it requests the latest statistics
> *before* telling the server about the work it has just completed,
> so that that work doesn't get reflected in the statistics until the
> *next* update, many hours later!
?
> Under "Project Commands", there is an "Update" command, which, among
> other things, brings in the latest statistics if you really must have
> them, but I get the impression it might be best not to bother the
> server too much by pressing it a lot.
I've pressed this button several times since I started the client with no
change at all.
> You can also see the most up-to-date figures (but not a graph) on your
> online account in a Web browser.
As far as I know, I don't have an account and presumably am computing as
'Anonymous'. I don't recall being asked to set one up.
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